asciilifeform: what a key refresh costs a serious entreprise << of course, this is well known. and also is one reason why 'serious enterprises' tend to get pwned regularly.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'Customers can change their keys as often as they wish. The more responsible actually do' << seriously, people eat the 30 btc cost ?
asciilifeform: likewise - any idiot can compile a doctored sshd.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'ebury' << the interesting part is that the piece in the link is merely a payload. the actual anal opening through which the payload was inserted - was never, afaik, found.
asciilifeform: in usa, it makes more sense to destroy the evidence (you'll typically get a long - but finite - sentence, vs. indefinite 'at the pleasure of the crown')
asciilifeform: pankkake: afaik this is SOP in the uk
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can't imagine it would cost much to have 'biorobots' monitor the cams in shifts.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you have not previously installed cameras on the machine cabinet, now might be a good time.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if power supply issues can be ruled out entirely - it is entirely conceivable that zapping the drives was the actual goal of the enemy. why? perhaps to lead to new ones being bought from a diddled supply chain.
asciilifeform: hmm apparently not. 'alnagon' is phenobarbital.
asciilifeform: benkay: the more school you've had, the less i'll pay you << how does this work? do you hire detectives to ferret out folks with secret diplomas?
asciilifeform: incidentally, this is what a 'clean' hit looks like. none of the nailgun nonsense. exec gets slightly more than his usual dose...
asciilifeform: say what you like about soviet apparatchiks - but they weren't dope fiends.
asciilifeform: '...injecting heroin to Google executive Forrest Hayes and never trying to help or to call authorities when it was clear something had gone terribly wrong...'
asciilifeform: copper thieves have destroyed considerably more mains transformers in usa than saboteurs with kalash, but the news blackout regarding these is nearly total.
asciilifeform: phun phact re: substations. the transformers are quite expensive, not many are manufactured.
asciilifeform: 'what you need to know' - 'nothing.' (usg)
asciilifeform: of the GRU have a particular dislike of Western nuclear power stations, which reduce the West's dependence on imported oil (including Soviet oil) and make it stronger and more independent. They are one of spetsnaz's, most important targets.'
asciilifeform: 'In France protesters fired an RPG-7 grenade-launcher at the reactor of a nuclear power station. Where they got the Soviet-made weapon I do not know. Perhaps it was just lying there at the roadside. But if it was a spetsnaz officer who had the good fortune to meet those people and provide them with their hardware, he would without further ado have been given a Red Banner medal and promotion. The senior officers
asciilifeform: still a headache for the folks who have to walk around with clipboard, check off what needs new paint job
asciilifeform: 'You ever drop an egg and on the floor you see it break? / You go and get a mop so you can clean up your mistake. / But did you ever stop to ponder why we know it's true, / if you drop a broken egg you will not get an egg that's new. / That's entropy...'
